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Don't Allow Schools To Take 3 -yr- olds in Nursery | ADMISSION NOTICE HC seeks government stand on matter by NOV 23| Hindustan Times Page 4 Dated NOV 3
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ADMISSION NOTICE HC seeks government stand on matter by November 23
The nursery admission row is back in the courts.The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought the Delhi government's stand on a plea for stopping various private schools from admitting children below four years of age in their pre-primary (nursery) classes.
Acting Chief Justice AK Sikri and justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw issued a notice to the Directorate of Education and the Committee on Unaided Schools and sought their replies by November 23.
“Despite the court's orders and directions issued by education department, private schools gave admission to threeyear-old children.“
Lawyer Ashok Agarwal, appearing for NGO Social Jurist, accused the government of not enforcing the court's September 2007 order, which had asked it to implement Ashok Ganguly Committee's recommendations.
The Ganguly Committee had fixed four years as the minimum age for admission in pre-primary classes.
“This helped children prepare for admission to Class 1 in primary schools after the age of five years and without undergoing more than a year of schooling at pre-primary stage,“ Agarwal said.
Seeking directions to all unaided private schools to follow a uniform age criteria of four plus to admit students in nursery classes, the petition said it was a must to meet the statutory stipulation under Section 16 of Delhi School Education Act, 1973 that no child below five years in age should be admitted to Class 1 of a recognised school. TEACHERS AGREE WITH GANGULY COMMITTEE When asked to comment, most principals and education experts said that three years was too early an age to send a child to school.
Last year, in fact, many had raised their voice against the admission criteria that declared the minimum permissible admission age to be three years.
“This is a persistent problem. Some three-year-olds are not even toilet-trained. Nursery is the beginning of formal schooling but it becomes a part of early childhood schooling when children so young are enrolled,“ said Ameeta M Wattal, principal, Springdales School, Pusa Road While last year, the age for admission was three years, the year before that it was set at four years.
“The government needs to be clear about the implementation of the suggestions of the Ashok Ganguly Committee. Ideally there should be just one year of pre-primary education, the age of admission to which should be four years,“ said Sumit Vohra, who runs admissionsnursery.com, a website on nursery admissions in the NCR.
“We have said repeatedly that three years is too young,“ he added. ,
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Permalink Reply by Maharam Tanwar on
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This will be a good move if decision comes in favour of 4 years and pre primary schooling be limited to 1 year only. School experience difficulties in managing the small kids. 1 year will make much difference.
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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on
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Maharamji on our facebookpage Education for all 4-5 parents have also desired the same
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thx for the initiative. the forum is setting examples of service before self.
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thanks for your kind words sir
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Permalink Reply by 0lawfith53yov on
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Thanks Mr. Vohra
For sharing this page, but i really do not understand that this education department is confused about admission criteria's and they make fool of us and them too.
I agree with this part that 3 yr is too early for nursery but why they have taken the admission last year when according to Ganguly Commitee age should be 4 yr for nusery.
It means they dont value the Gangully commitee or they are running system according to their convenince
Priyanka
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Permalink Reply by Sumit Vohra (Webmaster) on
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Dear Priyanka
There is some vested interest and we are not even sure that whether this will be implemented this year also !!
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That will be good if they wont implement this year as my daughter is eligible according to last year criteria
Priyanka
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Priyanka,Chances are less but things are unpredictable
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Good...This should be the way to go...However if implemented, will it be only for Delhi schools ? Or will it include Noida and Gurgaon too ?
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Dear Nadeem
Right now for delhi only !!
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Dear All,
Persuant to 23 Nov. deadline and Mr. Sumit Vohra's view, the ruling may not be implemented this year and if so, the process may start a bit late. Schools also need some time to frame guidelines accordingly. However, I wish the ruling be implemented from this year itself (2012-13).
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i definitely also agree that 3 years is too early ........... then why the undue panic and hype created , in process the child looses precious years of childhood. ... and what will happen for people like us whose child has already got admitted in amity (fees taken by school) !!!!!!!!!!!! this is absolutely appalling that the govt procedures wake up a last hrs so that citizens are victimsed .
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